Judge — August 17, 1918 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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August 17, 1918 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT | ae — => - - ———s A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY | Why does the poor fellow who really deserves the best usually get the worst of it in the matrimonial lottery? Mau- passant, whose stories picture all sorts and conditions of life, and all kinds of men and women, from the best to the basest, with a relentless realism, has made the man who treads the Via Dolorosa of the deceived husband the subject of one of his best novelettes, that grips one with hooks of steel in the intensity of its passion and anguish. Why should the possession of a little money make a worthy man the legitimate prey of a scheming woman? Why is it that nothing reveals to upright hearts the deceits of infamous hearts? How is it that voices have the same sound for adoring as for lying? Why is a false, deceptive look the same as a sincere one? These are the reflections of the injured husband when, after years of fancied domestic security, the awful truth is borne home to him and the storm bursts. CE Maupassant does not moralize. In the wonderful pictures he gives of the world helived in virtue is praised and vice is condemned rather by events and action. If he is terribly real, and the nudity of his human nature is startling in its effect, it is because his stories mirror life as he found it. A SPECIALLY LOW BEFORE-PUBLICATION PRICE | UNABRIDGED AND UNEXPURGATED 4 A Fine Library Edition She beautiful full page frontispiece illustration -VERDL Ni DITION Allen, 17 Volumes in Rich Cloth Binding Each Volume 81; x 5!j inches Big, Clear 12 Point Type o1 Pure White Antique’ Paper 5,500 Pages That Will Hold You Chained by the Hour 347 Stories, No Novelettes, Poems, Dramas. tertainment for housand and One s. Love and Life in Strange Lands— Paris, The African Hinterland. Stories of War, , Mystery and Horror. Send Today to Get the Benefit of the Before-Publica- tion Price REALISM UNALLOYED ahs INA ny DAYS | | Maupa tually observed. sant presented only what he h petty meannesses of human nature and the cupidity—w most men MONEY. BACK IF ors SATISVIED i "s fame has extended into all ci 1116 Brunswick Bldg., New York City sIstoy marveled at the depth of hum a prstose £1.00, Seat pai found in his stories; found in him tenderness graphic power of Smollett, the b Swift, mingled and reincarnate lication price, $19 00, which te of $1.50 (oF more) a month forms of art—the sh ory—) ["SRUNSWICK SUBSCRIPTION CO, J-S.17-18 | Andrew | Name. Address Occupation comicbooks.com